Word: gagged
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...Office of General Counsel. Last month’s compromise specified that the FBI could not demand e-mail and internet use records from libraries, although it can still demand them from the libraries’ internet service providers. Where the Patriot Act originally included a “gag rule” forbidding recipients of FBI requests for library patron information from speaking about them, the compromise provided the option of judicial review of the gag rule. The Patriot Act renewal legislation made explicit a recipient’s right to consult with an attorney about these FBI requests...
...borrowing record was not changed by the compromises. But, under current law, libraries who receive this kind of request are prohibited from ever discussing it. The compromise would set a time limit on this controversial ban by specifying that libraries can challenge this “gag rule” in court after a year has passed, according to a statement released by the Republican senators who voted against long-term Patriot Act renewal in December...
This provision makes the right to challenge the gag order in court meaningless, national security policy counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union Timothy H. Edgar told The Crimson in December...
...skiing in Vail, Colorado. Those images of Ford were the material for send-ups by a rising young comic named Chevy Chase, who was one of Saturday Night Live?s stars. SNL went after Ford so many times that he finally went on the show and kept up the gag by telling Chase he was a "a very funny... suburb." Jimmy Carter was stalked by the "killer rabbit." In 1979, out fishing near his home in Plains, Georgia, Carter's dinghy was besieged by a "swamp rabbit" familiar in those parts. White House Press Secretary Jody Powell told the story...
...first big win for Canada came Saturday evening, when 5-ft. 3-in. Jennifer Heil of Spruce Grove, Alta., won the women's freestyle moguls competition, thereby refuting, for the moment anyway, Rudge's remark that Canadians tend to gag "on the big day." Under bright lights accented by the moonlit sky at Sauze d'Oulx, top-ranked Heil performed a 360 off the first jump and her trademark backflip with iron cross (skis crossed, tips down) off the second. "I've been feeling the pressure pretty much the last eight months," said Heil, 22. "The most important thing...